Welcome to cron.weekly issue #8 for Sunday, December 27th. To everyone a very merry Christmas and a happy new year! May your favourite open source beta project reach a stable release in 2016! 😉

I would have thought Christmas and the years’ end would make for a slow and empty edition, but I couldn’t have been more wrong. Lots of new releases but very little new projects and guides. Bloggers are taking some time off, it seems. This also makes this release a bit atypical.

This may seem like a small change, but the Fedora team wants to recompile all current binaries with gcc 6 for the Fedora 24 release. Most packages will have to rebuild too, because of dependencies on libtool, llvm, gcc, …

This new release of the open source Github/Bitbucket clone features an auto-merge option and, just like Github Pages, the new Gitlab Pages feature that allows you to host a static version of your site (for now: enterprise edition only, I’m sure the community edition will soon follow).

A well-founded rant on cryptography in general but mostly aiming at OpenSSL’s implementation of different ciphers. TLS ciphers are different for Apache, Nginx, Ruby, … and can cause a world of (debug) pain.

This is follow-up of last weeks’ issue on Grub2’s security vulnerability. It offers more background and confirms that while the bug is indeed embarrassing for the Linux community, exploiting it was only possible in very specific circumstances.

Google has already created the OpenSSL fork “BoringSSL” and is planning to do the same for the gcc project, naming it boringcc. It’s targeting one of our core tools (gcc) so I’ll be interested to follow its releases.

This impressive overview keeps the track of all the Hadoop related projects, focussing on open source environments. Quite the overview and it looks like a good starting point if you want to explore the Hadoop space.

We’ve had tiling window managers for Linux for ages, and since I know many Linux users run Mac’s (either personally or for work), you may find this interesting too. This project brings the tiling window manager to OSX.

KeyBox is a web-based SSH console that centrally manages administrative access to systems. Web-based administration is combined with management and distribution of user’s public SSH keys. Key management and administration is based on profiles assigned to defined users.